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Day / Date

What do these mean?
1. What day is it tommorow? (Is this asking about the date? eg. Nov. 12th)
2. Is this asking about the date? What is 'the' referring to?)
3. What date is it tommorow? (It is thursday tommorow?)

Re: Day / Date

1. What day is it tomorrow? (Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
2. What date is it tomorrow? *ungrammatical
3. What's the date tomorrow? (Saturday, November 13th)
4. What's tomorrow's date? (Saturday, November 13th)

Distribution: Compound noun (Monday)What day is it?
It is Monday.

Distribution: Noun (November 13th)What is the date?
The date is November 13th.

Re: Day / Date

Thanks.

1. What day is it tomorrow? (Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
2. What date is it tomorrow? *ungrammatical
3. What's the date tomorrow? (Saturday, November 13th)

Are these correct?
1. What is the day tommorow? (Is 'the' referring to tommorow's day?)
2. What is day tommorow? (How come when I take out 'the' the question is incorrect?)
3. What is a day tommorow? (How come this is incorrect with 'a'?)
4. What's the date tomorrow? (Why do I have to have 'the' here? I can't use 'a' or take out 'the' or use something else? Why is it incorrect if I take out 'the'?)

Are these correct? Do they mean the same thing?
5. What is the day tommorow?
6. What day is it tommorow?

For the question above, which one do I use? Do I use the second one when I have more then one pair of questions like that?
7. Do they mean the same thing?
8. Do they mean the same things? (What does the bold part mean?)

Is #10 incorrect? Because 'pair' is plural? Like 'I have a pair of shoes.'? But 'One' is in there?
9. One pair of questions like that?
10. One pair of question like that?

2. What date is it tomorrow? *ungrammatical

How come it sounds okay? I still don't really understand why this sentence is not grammatical?

Re: Day / Date

1. 'the' is specific: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.
2. 'day' is a count noun.
3. 'tomorrow' is specific.
4. 'tomorrow' is specific.
5. OK
6. OK
7. Do they mean the same thing? (They share one meaning)
8. Do they mean the same things? (They share more than one meaning)
9. A pair of _______ (plural noun)
10. Not OK
10a. 'date' does not require an adjective modifier (e.g., Mon+day, Tues+day)
10b. Distribution refers to how the words in a sentence are arranged.
10c. The phrases in August and on August 19th are prepositional in form and adverbial in function. The phrases are headed by a preposition, and the phrases answer the question, When?
11. It is Monday. "It" has two functions: (1) "It" stands for Today: Today is Monday. (2) "It" stands for nothing. It's an empty subject marker.

In English, every sentence must have a subject; if there isn't a subject, then a semanticallyempty pronoun, either "It" or "There", is added.

EX: There are two books on the table. (Semantically empty Subject)
EX: Two books are on the table. (Subject)

Re: Day / Date

Originally Posted by blacknomi

Why is it umgrammatical? I'm totally shocked.

Question formation
(a)
Statement: November 14th is tomorrow's date.
WH-replacement: What is tomorrow's date?
(b)
Statement: November 14th is the date tomorrow.
WH-replacement: What is the date tomorrow?